greenhouse gasses do, in fact, have greenhouse effects

If any readers can explain President's hesitancy to acknowledge that humans and our air pollutants have something to do with the climate, I look forward to your comments below. The President was asked head on during a press briefing yesterday, "do you believe that climate change is manmade and that you, personally, as the leader of the richest country in the world, have a responsibility to reverse that change?"

And he refused to answer that question. Rather, like the "hard work" of Iraq, climate change is a "serious long-term issue that needs to be dealt with."

There is no doubt that the global climate changes regardless of human impact. That glaciers no longer grace our backyards is evidence enough for me.

It should be evidence enough for Bush to notice that this off-colored emission from cars floats up into the sky. And multiplying that emission a quadrillion times to account for what vehicles emit, one is not hard pressed to note a human contribution to the atmosphere. Unless our gasses magically have, contrary to the findings of the great majority of those that study this, no affect (say, greenhouse-like quality) on Earth...unless the gasses happily dither away...then our President, in not acknowledging this human contribution is either 1) an idiot, or (more likely) 2) deceptive/lying/captured-by-interest-outweighing-Earth.

While we wait for his better senses to take hold, look with me at this article. It explores the edits made by a White House official on several reports issued in 2002 and 2003. Mr Cooney "removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors, including some senior Bush administration officials, had already approved."

Who is this man that, after researchers and administration officials had already edited the reports, had the power...neigh, must have had the over-riding knowledge about climate change, to make further changes to the reports?

Before going to the White House in 2001, he was the "climate team leader" and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade group representing the interests of the oil industry. A lawyer with a bachelor's degree in economics, he has no scientific training.

Yes. a former Big Oil lobbyist. Awesome, isn't it, that this Administration gives him the final edit on policy positions dealing with what we will leave behind to countless generations.

Giving this guy the editor's pen for mark-ups and revisions on climate change is somewhere akin to praising Hugh Hefner's critique on the objectification of women.